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Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always,...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1809
Date of death:
- Oct 7, 1849 (age 40 years)
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2009 (age 76 years)
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1885
Date of death:
- Nov 1, 1972 (age 87 years)
John Dryden
John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1631
Date of death:
- May 12, 1700 (age 68 years)
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1778
Date of death:
- Sep 18, 1830 (age 52 years)
François Mauriac
François Mauriac (11 October 1885 — 1 September 1970) was a French author; member of the Académie française (1933); laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur (1958). He is acknowledged...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1885
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1970 (age 84 years)
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is, perhaps, The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from the United Kingdom through Western and Eastern...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1941 (age 68 years)
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1930 (age 79 years)
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published two novels, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and memoir.
Dillard's...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.
Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1943 (age 66 years)
Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson (born 2 June 1960, Nottingham) is an English author and critic. As well as writing both fiction and non-fiction books, she is also known for having written a long-running column in The Guardian entitled "Living with Teenagers" based on...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1960 (age 49 years)
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novel them (1969) won the National...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1938 (age 71 years)
Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 – October 13, 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1892
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 1957 (age 64 years)
Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 — 22 August 1970) was a Russian formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1895
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1970 (age 75 years)
George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929), is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1929 (age 80 years)
Werner Hamacher
Werner Hamacher (born 1948) is a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher studied philosophy, comparative literature and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris),...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर') (September 23, 1908 – April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academician, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. Dinkar emerged as a rebellious poet with his...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1974 (age 65 years)
Shane Leslie
Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, generally known as Shane Leslie, (24 September 1885 – 14 August 1971), an Irish-born diplomat and writer. He was a first cousin of the British war time Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. In 1908, John...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1885
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 1971 (age 85 years)
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1806
Date of death:
- Jan 20, 1867 (age 61 years)
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.
Cesare Pavese was born in Santo Stefano Belbo...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1908
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1950 (age 41 years)
Gene Shalit
Gene Shalit (born March 25, 1932, in New York City) is a film and book critic. He has filled these roles on NBC's The Today Show since January 15, 1973. He is known for his frequent use of puns, his oversized handlebar moustache, and for wearing...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1932 (age 77 years)
Elizabeth Young
Elizabeth Young (1950-2001) was a London-based literary critic and author, who wrote principally on cult writers for a range of British newspapers and magazines. In particular she championed transgressive fiction, for which she received some...
Date of birth:
- 1950
Date of death:
- 2001 (age 51 years)
Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi, born (and known in Japan as) Yonejiro Noguchi (野口米次郎 Noguchi Yonejirō, December 8, 1875 - July 13, 1947), was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the father of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1875
Date of death:
- Jul 13, 1947 (age 71 years)
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente (born Bethany Thomas May 5, 1979, Seattle, Washington) is an American poet, novelist, and literary critic. Her writing tends to be postmodern, with rich language (drawing upon her classics education) and surrealist elements....
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1979 (age 30 years)
Josephine Jacobson
Josephine Jacobsen (19 August 1908 – 9 July 2003) was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971.
Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, she...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1908
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 2003 (age 94 years)
Javad Mojabi
Javad Mojabi (Persian: جواد مجابی , born 1939 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary critic.
He has a BS in Law and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tehran University. He has written hundreds of critical works and essays on...
Date of birth:
- 1939 (age 71 years)
Jean-Pierre Richard
Jean-Pierre Richard, (born July 15, 1922, Marseille) is a French writer and literary critic.
Jean-Pierre Richard began his advanced studies at the École normale supérieure in the rue d'Ulm (Paris) in 1941, passed the "agrégation" in literature in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1922 (age 87 years)
Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout (1968- ) is the Prentice Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and...
Date of birth:
- 1968 (age 42 years)
James Phelan, Literary Scholar
James Phelan (born 1951) is an American writer, literary scholar, and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He joined the faculty of Ohio State in 1977 after earning his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध) (November 13, 1917 in Madhya Pradesh – September 11, 1964) was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayist, literary and political critic, and fiction writers of the 20th century. He also remained...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1917
Date of death:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
Julio Valle Castillo
Julio Valle Castillo (born August 10, 1952), was born in Masaya, Nicaragua. He is a poet, novelist, painter, essayist, and a critic of literature and art.
Valle-Castillo studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the National Autonomous University...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1952 (age 57 years)
Richard Marggraf Turley
Richard Marggraf Turley (born 2 August 1970) is a British poet and literary critic.
Marggraf Turley was born in the Forest of Dean and moved to Wales at the age of seven.
His first collection of poetry The Fossil Box was published by Cinnamon Press...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1970 (age 39 years)
Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Jan Komrij (Winterswijk, March 30, 1944) is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands, or Poet Laureate.
Gerrit Jan Komrij was born in the eastern...
Date of birth:
- 1944 (age 66 years)
Bernard Benstock
Bernard Benstock (1930—July 14, 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami. He was an authority on British mystery writers, and Irish writers Sean O'Casey and James Joyce. He was editor of the "James Joyce...
Date of birth:
- 1930
Date of death:
- Jul 14, 1994 (age 64 years)
Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta
Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (born February 6, 1929) is a Venezuelan writer, essayist and literary critic, specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello.
Sambrano Urdaneta was born at the town of Boconó, Trujillo state, Venezuela. Arrives to Caracas...
Date of birth:
- 1929 (age 81 years)
Willis Barnstone
Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος). He is...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1927 (age 82 years)
Raymond Picard
Raymond Picard was an author, prominent Sorbonne professor and Jean Racine scholar noted for his scathing tract "Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture?" ("New Criticism or New Fraud?"), which was aimed at the "subjective" analytical approach of...
Date of birth:
- 1917 (age 93 years)
Eric Miles Williamson
Eric Miles Williamson (born June 20, 1961) is an American novelist and literary critic, member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, editor of the American Book Review, Boulevard, and Texas Review. Williamson is currently a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1961 (age 48 years)
Walter Rojas Perez
Walter Rojas Perez (born July 19, 1962) is a Ph.D., university professor in United States of America. He is a writer and literary critic, representing the Costa Rican Diaspora.
Rojas Perez was born in the province of Limón, Costa Rica on July 19,...
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German pronunciation: [maʁˈsɛl ˌʁaɪ̯ç ʁaˈnɪtski]) (born 2 June 1920) is a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47. He is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1920 (age 89 years)
Hayat Saif
Hayat Saif (Hāẏāt̲ Sāipha : Bangla: হায়াৎ সাইফ) is a twentieth century modern Bengali poet and literary critic from Bangladesh. A career bureaucrat, he retired in 2000 and since then is engaged in the corporate private sector and divides his time...
Italo Alighiero Chiusano
Italo Alighiero Chiusano (Wrocław, 10 June 1926 - Frascati, 15 February 1995) was an Italian independent writer, literary critic, Germanist, literary historian, essayist, author of dramas, and journalist.
Chiusano authored several television...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1926
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 1995 (age 68 years)
Mohammad Hoqouqi
Mohammad Hoqouqi (May 3 , 1937-June 29, 2009) was an Iranian poet and critic. Of the more than 30 books he has published one of them Modern Poetry, from Beginning until Today is considered one of the leading encyclopedic sources on modern Iranian...
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 2009
Stelvio Mestrovich
Stelvio Mestrovich (born 20 June 1948) is a writer, musicologist, and critic born in Zadar, then part of Yugoslavia, today in Croatia. His parents were Italian.
Mestrovich is an important musical critic of the late Baroque, with particular knowledge...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1948 (age 61 years)
Dimosthenis Kourtovik
Dimosthenis Kourtovik (Greek: Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ) (b. 1948, Athens, Greece) is a well known Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist. He studied biology in Athens and (West) Germany and specialized later on physical anthropology. In 1986...
Date of birth:
- 1948 (age 62 years)
